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Steve Scott: Everything Will Be Fine

August 9, 2019

As the scientist in the family, Steve Scott takes on a new role when his dad must undergo heart surgery.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Steve Scott, Story Collider producer, heart, fathers, aging, family, Season 9

Alison Smith: Forgetting the Fire and Brimstone

June 8, 2018

Writer Alison Smith reconnects with her estranged father after he develops Alzheimer's disease.

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In Health and Medicine, Neuroscience Tags Alison Smith, aging, fathers, family, Alzheimer's

Jamie Brickhouse: The Last Time She Was Mama Jean

May 11, 2018

Jamie Brickhouse begins to notice some startling changes in his mother's behavior.

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In Health and Medicine, Neuroscience Tags Jamie Brickhouse, mothers, aging, Lewy Body Dementia, dementia, parents

Erica Silberman: Living With My Mother

November 3, 2017

Actor and writer Erica Silberman tries to find a place for her mother with Alzheimer’s.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Erica Silberman, aging, parents, mother, Alzheimer's

Robin Dessel: Sex and the nursing home

September 29, 2013

When two residents of her nursing home fell in love, sexual rights advocate Robin Dessel had to decide how the staff would handle their rendezvous.

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Tags Robin Dessel, season 3, aging, sex

Stephanie Nothelle: A last cup of coffee

September 22, 2013

Stephanie Nothelle loves volunteering at her local nursing home, but she doesn't know what to do when one of the residents says, "I die today" and asks for a last cup of coffee -- against doctor's orders.

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Tags Stephanie Nothelle, season 3, aging, medicine

Robin & Samantha Henig: The rules of writing with your daughter

February 24, 2013

Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, Samantha, decided to write a book together about life as a twentysomthing. There was just one problem -- how to handle the bits you don't want to talk about with your mother?

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Tags Robin Henig, Samantha Henig, aging, season 3, mothers, journalism, pair stories

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